Coudal Partners

The Curators in 3 parts

A MoOMumentary

The Curators

For all these years we've been curating the
Museum of Online Museums, one persistent question
has been with us from the beginning: "Why?" It's
one thing to collect stamps or coins and have
some association with a like-minded community.
It's something else entirely when you're likely
the only person on the planet scouring thrift
shops for Fanta bottle caps. And it takes an
extra special breed to then take their
one-of-a-kind collection and building a dedicated
online museum to share their odd passion with the
world. We've been enjoying and collecting these
collectors' work for so many years, but it was
high time we learned some origin stories. So we
hit the road, camera in hand, landing in three
cities and three states, seeing three collections
up-close, interviewing each curator, and asking,
well, "Why?"

The Moom

The Board

The Museum

Welcome to the Coudal Partners Museum of Online Museums. Here,
you will find links from our archives to online collections and
exhibits covering a vast array of interests and obsessions: Start
with a review of classic art and architecture, and graduate to
the study of mundane (and sometimes bizarre) objects elevated to
art by their numbers, juxtaposition, or passion of the collector.